Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument highlights the fact that, two years ago, radio station wcqp in rockville increased the number of call-in advice programs and witnessed an increase in its share of radio audience in rockville area. Seeing this example, and citing a nationwide survey, the station manager at kick medway recommends adding more call-in advice programmes in pursuit of a larger listening audience. However for this we need to evaluate certain assumptions which can help us understand whether the argument holds any merit.
To begin with, it is stated in the argument that wcqp saw a rise in its share of listening audiences. now this maybe due to a variety of reasons and not necessarily because of the introduction in dial-in programs. For example, the rise in number of listeners could be attributed to a decline in other
radio stations, the listeners, now faced with a limited choice, end up choosing wcqp. also, it is not stated clearly that the only change made by the
radio station is the introduction of the call-in advice program. there may be some other underlying factor which could have boosted the listenership of wcqp. if the assumption is clarified and validated with the help of proofs, it can be said without a shred of doubt that call-in advice programs are bound to increase the popularity of radio
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still, there are certain other factors which need to be evaluated first, one of it is the concern that wcqp implemented this change around 2 years ago. if kick tries to do the same, it may not get the same results as the social culture could have changed. it may be that call-in advice shows are not really popular now, we all know how fast social trends change. The times have moved forward, and with them peoples tastes may have also moved ahead. it may even be the case that radio itself is no longer a popular medium. we all have seen how new technology keeps superseding the old. Firstly, we need to ask whether people are still willing to listen to radios or whether call-in advice shows are still in vogue. if this is not true, then kick’s mission of gaining a larger listening audience may end up being a failure.
Finally, the argument mentions nothing about the demographics or culture of medway, is it similar to rockville? The argument has mentioned a nationwide study but the results for that study may not be relevant as radios generally operate in highly localised regions. Most people love radios as they are according to the tastes of small cities or towns. medway radioheads could even end up disliking the proposed show format, and uninterested in listening to kick. medway could have a very unique culture which does not appreciate call-in advice shows . A question pertaining to this which could be asked is whether the current scenario in medway is similar to that of rockville two years back? if the answer is yes, then we could try to replicate the actions of rockville and get expected results, otherwise the station manager of kick might find himself or herself surprised at the lack of increased listenership.
To sum up, we have sufficiently proved that the argument is flawed because it relies on several unwarranted assumptions. Moreover there is need of strong evidence which provides beyond doubt the relation between cause and effects which the author of argument has tried to describe. if the author is able to provide the data to support the argument, preferably in the form of a systematic research study, perhaps it would be possible to evaluate the validity of the claim made by the author of the argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 610 350
No. of Characters: 2888 1500
No. of Different Words: 269 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.97 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.734 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.513 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 216 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 158 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 20.962 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.608 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.164 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, still, then, for example, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 86.0 55.5748502994 155% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3041.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 610.0 441.139720559 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98524590164 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96972615649 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57458428427 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 204.123752495 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472131147541 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 920.7 705.55239521 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9682826199 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.62962963 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5925925926 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 17.0 5.15768463074 330% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 34.0 5.25449101796 647% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285777427131 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784165304933 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119471762008 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906415303901 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112570686803 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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